Tribal and Peasant Uprisings Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

What overall shift do the Kisan Sabha, Tebhaga, and Telangana movements together show in peasant organising?

Question 2

What Khasi chief actually led resistance against British road-building through his own hills?

Question 3

What overall issue, beyond land loss, connected the Kol, Khasi, and Bhil movements together?

Question 4

What financial trap actually kept many indigo farmers bound to this forced cultivation?

Question 5

What new tenancy act did the British actually pass in response to the Santhal Rebellion?

Question 6

What natural hardships actually combined to trigger the Kheda Satyagraha?

Question 7

What princely state's own oppressive landlord system actually sparked the Telangana movement?

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About Tribal and Peasant Uprisings

Long before the Indian National Congress led the fight for independence, tribal communities and ordinary peasants were already rising up against colonial rule and its harsh new demands on land and labour. This quiz covers that whole story, from the forests of Chotanagpur to the indigo fields of Bengal.

It starts with early tribal revolts, the Kol uprising, the Khasi resistance under Tirot Sing, and the Bhil movement that ended in the Mangarh massacre. It gives real depth to the Santhal Hul of 1855, led by the brothers Sidhu and Kanhu Murmu, and to Birsa Munda's Ulgulan of 1899, alongside the Kuki Rebellion, the Tana Bhagat movement, and Alluri Sitarama Raju's Rampa Rebellion.

The quiz then turns to the peasants themselves: the Indigo Revolt that inspired a famous play, the Pabna and Deccan agrarian unrest, and the Moplah Rebellion of Malabar. It closes with the movements that helped shape Gandhi's own method of satyagraha, Champaran, Kheda, and Bardoli, and with the organised peasant struggles of the Kisan Sabha, the Tebhaga movement, and the Telangana uprising against the Nizam.